Statement to principals and supervisors

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Statement to Principals and Supervisors
August 23, 1957
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the superintendent of schools is not the school boards He is not
even a member of the school board. He has no vote on any decision of the board*
TO attribute to him inordinate influence of the board is to credit him with
power he does not possess. He is, by reason of being superintendent, the
secretary of the board. He receives information and assembles materials for
the consideration of the board; he makes a record of action taken; and he
carries out directions of the board.
You should understand this and pass the knowledge along to others.
Of course this statement is not in any sense a condemnation of the
boards action. I am in accord with the decisions mads and the board has my
loyal support.
Assignment of Pupils
You and I do not make the laws nor set the policies of the
Greensboro City Board of Education. It is our task to administer the schools
under the laws of State and Nation and under the policies of the Board of
Education.
Recent developments have complicated and high-lighted pupil assignment. You must familiarize yourselves with the assignment law, the Pearsall
Act, and the resolutions of the Board of Education. Keep your records up-to-
date and make prompt and accurate reports.
Pupils enrolled last year have been assigned and re-assigned.
Briefly this is what has been done:
1. Assigned to schools in which previously enrolled or to the
school they would have been promoted to formerly.
2. Procedure for applying for reassignment as required by law.
3. Reassignment:
(a) On application including colored to white schools.
(What do if white).
(b) Residence.
(c) On initiative of Board
(x) Sections
(y) Day Nursery
(z) From Mixed School
(&) Miscellaneous
4. Agreement: Re: Tuition Pupils and City to County.
5. No child of Negro race to previously all-white school or white child
to previously all-Negro school except on approval of the Board.
Any applicant of another race should be sent to the school he
would have gone to previously.